Brianna Pinto

Brianna Pinto

Pinto with the North Carolina Courage in 2024
Personal information
Full name	Brianna Alexis Smalls Pinto[1]
Date of birth	(2000-05-24) May 24, 2000 (age 24)[2]
Place of birth	New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Height	5 ft 5 in (1.65 m)
Position(s)	Midfielder
Team information
Current team	North Carolina Courage
Number	8
Youth career
	Triangle United
	Triangle Futbol Club
2014–17	CASL ECNL
2018	NTH Tophat
College career
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2018–2021	North Carolina Tar Heels	65	(23)
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2021	NJ/NY Gotham FC	10	(0)
2022–	North Carolina Courage	47	(3)
International career‡
2015–2016	United States U-17	3	(0)
2017–2020	United States U-20	29	(12)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of July 7, 2024 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of April 16, 2021

Brianna Alexis Smalls Pinto (born May 24, 2000) is an American professional soccer player who plays as a midfielder for North Carolina Courage of the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL).

Raised in Durham, North Carolina, Pinto played college soccer for the North Carolina Tar Heels, where she was a first-team All-American as a sophomore and junior in 2019 and 2020. She was drafted third overall by NJ/NY Gotham FC in the 2021 NWSL Draft and traded to the Courage at the end of the year.

Pinto represented the United States youth national team at the 2016 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup and the 2018 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup. At age 16, she the youngest player called up to the senior national squad for the 2017 SheBelieves Cup. She was named the U.S. Soccer Young Female Player of the Year in 2019.^[3]